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Whoever you are as you read this, / Whatever your trouble or grief, / I want you to know and to heed this: / The day draweth near with relief.
No sorrow, no woe is unending, / Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb; / So sure as your cry is ascending, / So surely an answer will come.
Whatever temptation is near you, / Whose eyes on this simple verse fall; / Remember good angels will hear you / And help you to stand, if you call.
Though stunned with despair I beseech you, / Whatever your losses, your need, / Believe, when these printed words reach you / Believe you were born to succeed.
You are stronger, I tell you, this minute, / Than any unfortunate fate! / And the coveted prize -- you can win it; / While life lasts 'tis never too late!